Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-12

time has not get come, and for ut least ole
moro Presidential term we must be doml-
mated in national conventions by New YORK.
The Irish. the Catholic and the labor vote,
he said ia against Mr.. Cleveland, and tnat
vote will prevent bis getting the New ork
delepation in the convention, and VIII de-
feat him if nominated. He SAID ne did not
balieve that the Cleveland boom, started by
certain democratic Senators, extended Do.
rond tha families OF those Senators, and
that in nearly every instance 1t was lnstlga-
tad by some favors received or more expect
ed and that Mr.. Cleveland was not to
blame for leaning back in his chair. pattng
his stomach, and saying, well, think I've
done pretty well, considering" in view OF
the fact that these hatterers fell him he
has made the best President since Jackson'5
time. and that he hears none Of the mutter-
ings of dissatisfaction and dissafection that
are reverberatipg among the democracy in
every State of the Union, and that unless
democrat could be found bold enough to go
before him, as Elijah went before Ahab, and
Law bare the naked truth, and he be wise
enough to see the truth and to profit by it,
he feared the injury he would do the party
in the remaining two years OF his admins
tration would be irremediable.
A Northern republican here to-day, who
attended the banquet of the young republl-
can club in Philadelphia, last night, says
MIR. John S. Wise, of Virginia, who calls the
wound he received as Confederate soldier,
his "plory wound" in his speech there, said
he was raised in house where love to the
Union was like faith in God, and that the
Union was desrer to him than any thing on
earth, and that he was ahead at the last
election when the sun went down and his
friends stopped voting, but that the demo.
Gratis did not stop then, but kept on voting
or counting. In speaking OF the next Pres
idential election Mr.. Wise said Richmond
would go republican and Virginia give 8
larger republican majority than any other
State except Pennsylvania.
A gentleman from Florida, here to-dey
saws the newspaper talk about the reelection
of ex-senator Jones, of his State, amounts
to nothing, and that the legislature has no
| more idea of rejecting him than it would
have if composed OF the people of this city
or of Detroit.
People here who read in the morning pa
pers the account Of the snobbery attending
the christening of Secretary Whitney's baby
Yesterday, could not help being reminded
of the paragraph in the Presidents inaugu-
raj message, in which he advised govern
ment officials here 10 live simple and unos'
| tentatious lives, in accordance with The
Jefersonan spirit that would characterize
| his administration.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Major R. F. Mason, Of Virginia. The Ma
| ior's horse threw him about year ago and
| Injured him SO severely that he has been
housed until q short time ago. He says he
has been out OF politics willingly ali that
time and unwilipgly out of more profitable
! business. He says every body he meets in
| his State wants the State debt settled, but
that from what lie knows CT the members OF
the committee appointed to confer with the
agent of the bondholders, be has not much
| hone that such settlement will be Effected.
| The President, through Col. Lamont, has
declined for obvious reasons, to attend the
meeting that is to be held here to protest
against coercion 10 Ireland. Through Mr..
| Pruden he has accepted an invitation to re-
view a coored procession on the 18th inst
The President has not yet suggested to
the Pacific Railroad Commission the cler K
that commission shall appoint. Senator
Mcpherson has recommended to the Presi.
| dent two persons-Mr. Theophilus French
and Mr.. Riddington-but as both had been
tried in former positions and found wanting,
and as the Senator was Informed of that
tact, he stopped recommending and retired.
Capt. W. ]. Gary, of Alexandria county,
Virginia, called at the pension Office yester-
day, and received his pension certificate as
8 soldier in the Mexican war, in which be
served as sergeant and lieutenant. Though
there are $4,000 applicants, Capt. Gary
certificate is the Goth one issued.
Senators Beck and Blackburn and representa-
tive Breckenridge, of Kentucky, have lust re-
turned from Richmond, to which city they went
| to look at Valentines heroic statue of John G..
Breckenridge, the clay model Of which is nearly
completed. They all say the work is striking
likeness and is complete success. The statue
will be OF bronze and will be erected in Licking
| ton, KY.
The President has signed the commissions of
| Messrs. PattsOn, Anderson and Littler as COM
missioners to investigate the Pacific railroads and
transmitted them to the Secretary of the Interior
| for issue.
The Ordnance Bureau of the Navy Department
is now engaged in preparing working plans for
the new buildings and for the reconstruction
OF the existing shops in the Washington navy
yard, so as to fit it for an ordnance foundry.
| The Treasury Department has decided that a
merchant acting as an appraiser is only entitled
to a compensation OF 50 per day for his services
as such, without regard to the number of cases on
which he may act on the same day.
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